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An appreciation-lean market without the demand pressure to back it. The rent math runs thin.
What would change this read: a price correction (median already −5.0% YoY) or rent growth lifting rent-to-price toward 0.8%/mo would move this ZIP toward a cash-flow story. inventory, +7.3% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 5.0% YoY while the median home got down 5.3% bigger, so value per square foot is up 1.4%.
Min/max come from the active-listing pool; the median comes from Realtor's separate listing set — the two are not subsets of each other, so the median's position relative to the tiles above should not be read literally.
At the median, a $679K purchase rents for $2,995/mo: 0.44% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
Not shown: 7 BR (sale only, no matching rent).
Sales here take about 39 days longer to go under contract than rentals (median across 3 property types).
Not shown: Apartment (rented here, not sold), Land (sold here, not rented), Multi-Family (sold here, not rented).
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 80134 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 20.3% of this ZIP's 28,658 occupied households, on a median household income of $147K.
| Measure | ZIP 80134 | Douglas County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $147K | $150K | -$3K |
| Below Poverty Level | 3.2% | 3.8% | -0.6% |
| Median Age | 37.50 | 39.60 | -2.10 |
| Total Population | 80,302 | 377,150 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.79 | 2.69 | +0.10 |
| Owner-Occupied | 79.7% | 77.4% | +2.3% |
| Worked From Home | 27.7% | 30.5% | -2.8% |
| Mean Commute | 27.30 | 27.10 | +0.20 |
Higher or lower is not itself good or bad — it describes the neighborhood, not the investment.
ZIP-level figures come from ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP codes. A missing value is suppressed or unavailable at this sample size, not zero. Estimates for 2019–2020 use the 2010 ZCTA boundaries and 2021–2024 the 2020 ones, so a step between those two years may be a boundary change rather than real movement.
County population is up 2.4% to 377,150: residents under 18 are down 0.2% and those 65 and over are up 6.4%.
County median household income is $150K, 3.8% of residents are below the poverty level, 30.5% work from home.